We asked the United States Postal Service politely and nicely not to close the Main Post Office, at Fifth and Arizona, as it is not only historically significant architecturally, but is conveniently located in the heart of the city and used by untold numbers of residents.

It said NO – flatly, brusquely. It was moving its services to a Colorado Avenue out of the way, inconvenient, and difficult site, and that was that. There was nothing in the USPS response that suggested that it gave a damn about its customers.

Okay. If USPS officials don’t care about our problems, why should we care about theirs? We suggest that the City streets and traffic wizards enact a series of “emergency” regulations in and around the proposed Colorado location that will have USPS vehicles going in circles, backwards,sideways, and anything but straight-forward. Perhaps several months in our special USPS traffic maze will convince the postal mucky mucks that the Fifth and Arizona location is not so bad, after all, and remind them that it may be their building, but it’s OUR town, and we make the rules.